I'm British and... 1. The majority of us say MERRY Christmas 2. We do have eggnog 3. The majority of people call them ADVENT calendars 4. Most people do have actual stockings 5. Presents in stockings are usually wrapped
naa i hear happy Christmas more, plus ive never heard anyone from Britain have eggnog. Oh yeah, i call advent calender's both advent and chocolate. it all depends on which part your from and how your parents brought you up.
Georgina Drake they're all true for me apart from the wrapped presents in stockings, I usually get really small presents so it would be a waste I'm from Britain btw
Okay so I’m Scottish and i don’t agree with some of these: 1) it’s an advent calendar 2) Christmas pudding is delicious (as are mince pies) 3) Boxing Day is an extension of Xmas day without the presents - and my family ALWAYS have steak pie 4) I had a knitted stocking - never used of my dads socks 5) it’s Santa. 6) never ever heard of a “devil on horseback”
Devils on horseback’s are dates wrapped in streaky bacon. I agree with everything you said haha, but in my house we say both Santa and Father Christmas
Queen Elizabeth, a woman of serious low-church piety, is said to prefer “happy” to “merry” because she dislikes “merry’s” connotation of boisterousness, even slight intoxication.
@@janani1826 just saying I know you posted this 5 months ago and all but you're talking shite haha, the fat red jolly coke Santa is American yes; but he did not originate in America haha. "Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire." This is were "Santa" originated from
Not to sound rude but in Britain we call them Advent Calendars not Chocolate Calendars and I don't recall any of these traditions she mentions. That wasn't meant to sound rude or anything but anyways I love your videos❤🌎😋
Everyones experience is different here. Connies way is just one, pretty popular way of doing things. I've heard them called both Advent and Chocolate calendars, and I've done most of her traditions, albeit a bit differently
@@SpectralNightingale I remember before they had chocolate in them, there was usually just a picture behind the door like the wise men or a star, chocolate advent calendars started about 30 years ago
Everyone saying "Oh she says this but I do this and I'm English!" It's Christmas. It's a family holiday. Of course people have different traditions. They are basically comparing how each of their families celebrate Christmas.
Luca K Well, that's the premise of the video. Generalisation based on the experiences of two people. With a video titled "British VS American", you're not going to talk about your experiences as if they are individual to you but I do see your point.
Queen Elizabeth, a woman of serious low-church piety, is said to prefer “happy” to “merry” because she dislikes “merry’s” connotation of boisterousness, even slight intoxication.
I live in England and the people in my area always start Christmas stuff on the 1st of December not when the coke a cola advert comes out and no one calls it a chocolate calendar they call it a advent calendar
The tangerine in the stocking is a historical thing as in war tangerines were thought to be a special thing as they were uncommon and expensive so people only got them at Christmas
@@maryjoan9927 It was through the 30s and 40s, with the Great Depression and then WW2, when many citrus fruits were rare due to them having to be imported, and so they were a special treat at Christmas.
My mum was English and we always had an orange in the toe of our Christmas stocking (one of dads rugby socks). She said it was due to war and winter and oranges being in short supply
(UK) My family did things a little differently to her: 1. I've always said merry christmas, never happy christmas. 2. Advent calendars, never heard it called a chocolate calendar. 3. We did have large decorated stockings, not just socks. 4. Intermittently called him both 'father christmas' and 'santa', although I don't think I knew 'santa' until I was about 10.
Oml yes! I'm not even from England and the Christmas specials air here the day after christmas but I've watched them for like 3 years now :D Except, when I usually watch them it's like 30 degrees celcius outside so I'm sweltering in the heat so the whole snow aesthetic of the show makes me jealous af
the reason mince pies have fruit in them is because during like the medieval times, meats and chickens and stuff were really expensive and this was mid winter so around that time, people were fast running out of their meat stocks which is why they used fruit preserves because they were much cheaper and lasted longer so they could freely use them in the winter - mince pies did originally have mince meat in them though, hence the name
BRITISH PERSON SPEAKING HERE: I say merry Christmas not happy Christmas... I have a huge stocking instead of a small one... Like everything is in there... I say Santa not Father Christmas
We get tangerines and in the bottom of our stocking every year on Christmas because in the "olden days" citruses were very expensive, especially that time of year since they only grow in warm climates and without planes and other fast modes of transport it was very hard to get citruses to places like Europe/America. When people got tangerines in their stockings on Christmas, it was a very special treat.
OMG She is so much like Zoella it's freaky 1) Her hair 2) Her slang 3) The way she talks 4) The way she does things like her mannerisms 5) Her Personality too!
In Britain on Boxing Day we have bubble 'n' squeak (at least my family do) which is basically all the leftovers mixed together and it tastes sooooo good 😂
I could count on one hand the number of times I've ever heard a British person say 'happy christmas'...we only really say merry christmas and happy new year.
In my area Happy Christmas is a lot more common. A lot of people in my family don't like the word Merry because it means slightly drunk and they don't want to wish a slightly drunk Christmas.
It's kind of interesting being canadian watching this because we have aspects of both British and American things mixed together because we are still technically controlled by the queen but we also have a government system more similar to America. I don't know I just think is the cool to relate to both sides.
I have to be honest in British and I really don’t agree with a lot of stuff that she said. I have never called it a chocolate calendar. I have always called it an advent calendar and growing up mine didn’t have chocolate in them we got given them at Church. I had a stoking growing up with wrapped presents.
as someone who lives in the UK and isn't religious i called them chocolate calendars, and personally I have never had a stocking and always thought it was an 'american' thing
you had calanders given out at church still? i sometimes had one as a child if me parrent bought one, made counting down to christmass more fun with a chocolate each day. advent is the 4 advent weeks before chrismass .
yes? Belgium, euhm, what do they show, The sound of music is always around that period, Home Alone, Frozen became a fast tv christmass movie, some really old classics, and always some that haven't been shown that regularly for 2-3 years, (I think harry potter will come in that categorie, they showed all the films one film a week onces around chrismass period), that cat includes over the top USA films like Elfs, that just aren't of a level to show every year, but acceptable to show every few years. but classic movies that a lot will once already have seen.
Happy Christmas is a thing that little kids say, Merry Christmas is what you say when you learn what merry means. Pretty much all she said is incorrect, definitely for me I mean. I'm from the North East of England!
+Maddi H I'm from North-East England and I call him Santa, Father Christmas, Santa Claus, sInterklaas, St Nicholas, Weihnachtsmann, papa noel and joulupukki :D My family tend to use just Santa, Father Christmas, Santa Claus or St Nicholas, I only use the other ones when speaking with my friends in other countries ^~^
the other thing on at Christmas is the doctor who Christmas special and my family always watched it even though none of us really watch doctor who it's just our Christmas tradition
People used to give fruit, namely the orange, as a gift back in the olden days because it was a commodity when England didnt have orange trees. It was a sweet treat that ppl loved.
home alone wallace and gromit-the wererabbit the speech the doctor who special stuff we leave out a carrot mince pie brandy i dont even like coke and when the advert airs its properly christmas we have icicles on the roof sometimes but its not that important nobody likes xmas theres all of them. you put all the songs on and listen to nothing else in december pigs in blankets christmas pudding (we dont set it alight or cover it in alcohol) my mum has it and the kids. we have a toffee pudding with custard advents . love them its not xmas yet and now im feeling festive
+DarkSlayer Yuki i only say merry christmas when im saying and a happy new year, because happy christmas and a happy new year doesn,t go, but otherwise to me it's happy christmas
Charlotte Phillips Well perhaps it's because of my parents. They're from Yorkshire and Lancashire, but they moved south a year before I was born. But most people I' know say Merry too.
Some of the stuff made me laugh because some of the Britain stuff is so different even when I live in Britain to. It just shows Britain has different things.
I am Australian and this is some of my Christmas tradition/s *We decorate/put up the tree on December 1st as it means good luck, not many people put up lights nowdays but usually around December 23rd my family/s would still drive around to go look at the lights. *Older people teach the little ones "Father Christmas" then eventually people just call him Santa or Santa Claus *Advent Calendars had chocolate *We would have those big red stockings and it would be full of chocolate/sweet lollies and sometimes you would get something like a hat or some kind of smaller present in them *Our entire family comes over and usually a few friends who don't have people to be around, come. *We literally have every food at Christmas, Turkey, Ham, Beef, Pork, sometimes BBQ foods, salads (pasta, potato, normal lettuce salad stuff), Corn, peas, pinkeyes (which are amazing Tasmanian potatoes), Christmas pudding, my stepdad's cheesecake, icecream, truffle, pavlova, lamingtons, prawns, seafood and then things like dips and chocolate/chips get put out so when people arrive they can eat something. (Everything is homemade because most of my family are chefs/cooks) *We have Christmas crackers and after lunch usually the adults would sit together and have some kind of alcohol while the kids play some kind of games. Then around 3/4pm we would all go home with food and sleep or whatever
tangerines or satsuma oranges and nuts were considered luxury items for people who were less well off so they would be given once a year at Christmas as a special treat for children in the days of yore and I think that it's a lovely tradition even though they're not a luxury anymore
I’ve been British since the day I was conceived and I relate more to his “American” Christmas than her weird Christmas. Christmas starts when Halloween ends. I’ve never heard of anyone having Boxing Day ham, or going anywhere but the well heated living room after dinner to eat celebrations and watch all the Christmas episodes of soaps. It’s a fecking advent calendar. Also Christmas is most definitely religious here...
Well it is for religious people sure but my family have been atheists for 3 generations and we still celebrate Christmas as does every British atheist I know and even some people from other religions I've had Hindu friends who celebrate Christmas. I think it's a cultural holiday as well as a religious one.
Boxing Day ham is quite popular and yeah allot of pubs are shut. I think a walk is more of a Boxing Day thing than Xmas. And most ppl go to the pub on Xmas Eve.
The song that goes ‘Feed the world, let them know it’s Christmas time’ is one of those songs that comes on the radio at Christmas time and my family open all the windows and the sunroof in the car, turn it up suuuper loud and sing even louder!!!
+Rowan Duck (JustDuck) I say happy holidays because not everyone is Christian or celebrates Christmas! Diwali, Hanukkah, The Solstice and Christmas (and I'm sure others I don't know about!) are all around the same time of year, so I call it the holiday season because there's more than one holiday then!
Holly Stephens no. That's something different. The orange is an old fashioned thing where that's what Santa would bring (like the equivalent of a iPhone on today's society as they were very expensive cos the were foreign) xx
Evan thinks that the Angel is religious but a star is just as equally religious! You put the start on your tree to symbolise the star above the stable. (tho as Connie said, nobody really does it for religion anymore)
+Megan collins I'm also agreeing most with the American's, she's talking jibberish!! i've never heard of that butter stuff, we wrap the presents in our stockings, we buy stockings etc...
Queen Elizabeth, a woman of serious low-church piety, is said to prefer “happy” to “merry” because she dislikes “merry’s” connotation of boisterousness, even slight intoxication.
Really? The idea of a child playing a pantomime dame (both essentially a drag queen and usually doing low level adult jokes that would go over the kids heads) is quite disturbing.
I think it was the older convention. In the original Night Before Christmas poem it ends with Happy Christmas to all (and to all a good night). Modern ones probably say Merry. And many have dropped the Santa pipe smoking lines!
I was in a Christmas pantomime once. I was 11 and sneezy the dwarf in snow white. it was me and 6 other girls my age as the dwarves and we all had fake beards and they were SO ITCHY. best and most uncomfortable week of my life 😂
+Tim Moore She didn't get things wrong!! haha how can you get things like this wrong?? I agreed with nearly everything she says but everyone has different traditions
Penny Mills she talks about "British traditions" when she is clearly a middle class southerner, she doesn't know what Britain is as she has led a feather bedded middle class life, in the most expensive place in England
Anyone else , who's british , remember driving round town JUST to look at all the lights and the trees and decorations for like an hour like its soooo fun
Advent calendars I have had have had chocolate in some years but also I have had ones with Christmas story/pictures in, bracelet charms, toiletries, marshmallows in. Nowadays there are so many. You can get ones with your in, candy in, makeup in, alcohol in. An advent calendar here in uk is technically a small gift every day as a countdown to Christmas Day.
Just to clarify not everything she said was 100% accurate. We say both merry Christmas and happy Christmas. I don't know anyone who gets ready for Christmas when they see Coca Cola advert. I always start Christmas on December the 1st or most people go by the John Lewis advert. Lots of people spend Boxing Day differently, I personally go to my grandparents house but we do have ham or gammon like she said. I've never heard of those prunes wrapped in bacon. The prize in the Christmas pudding is kind of a thing but it's more of a Spanish tradition. I don't call them chocolate calendars, everyone calls them advent calendar. Most people actually buy stockings instead of using socks. We call him Santa or Father Christmas, just not daddy Christmas. Merry Christmas!
You know it was Christmas time as a kid when Disney Channel would have the actors/actresses who are announcing the next show would have Christmas hats on with animated falling snow in the Background.
im from the UK and half the stuff she is saying we don't do
Haha yes!
it might depend though , just because you don't do it doesn't mean most people won't do it
+rebekah maryx Exactly, who says "Happy Christmas"
+GamingTime I do lol
Dancing Cupcake4 Oh......
I'm British and...
1. The majority of us say MERRY Christmas
2. We do have eggnog
3. The majority of people call them ADVENT calendars
4. Most people do have actual stockings
5. Presents in stockings are usually wrapped
Georgina Drake My presents in my stocking and they arent wrapped cause they wont fit
Georgina Drake yass
naa i hear happy Christmas more, plus ive never heard anyone from Britain have eggnog. Oh yeah, i call advent calender's both advent and chocolate. it all depends on which part your from and how your parents brought you up.
Georgina Drake they're all true for me apart from the wrapped presents in stockings, I usually get really small presents so it would be a waste I'm from Britain btw
And a Christmas film, the snowman!
I feel like her personal experience/opinions of Christmas is quite different from the majority of Britains' 😂
Elizabeth McQueen yeah I agree, I think its very dependant on the part of England your from
jadie-May dredd and Scotland
@@Amy-co3wb and wales and ireland :P
Elizabeth McQueen yeah
@@jadie-maydredd210 and the background that you come from
Okay so I’m Scottish and i don’t agree with some of these:
1) it’s an advent calendar
2) Christmas pudding is delicious (as are mince pies)
3) Boxing Day is an extension of Xmas day without the presents - and my family ALWAYS have steak pie
4) I had a knitted stocking - never used of my dads socks
5) it’s Santa.
6) never ever heard of a “devil on horseback”
Devils on horseback’s are dates wrapped in streaky bacon. I agree with everything you said haha, but in my house we say both Santa and Father Christmas
Isn't boxing day more of a clean up day? I know in retail it's the day we get rid of excess stock in preparation for new year.
exactly my thoughts
No
Also the irn bru advert is when we know it’s Christmas instead of the Coca Cola ad
I'm British and I say merry Christmas not happy christmas
Charlie green I know right!
Same
Queen Elizabeth, a woman of serious low-church piety, is said to prefer “happy” to “merry” because she dislikes “merry’s” connotation of boisterousness, even slight intoxication.
Charlie Green in the United States we say Merry Christmas too.
same
In the uk
1. We call it MERRY Christmas
2. We say father Christmas and santa
3. It's called ADVENT calender
Santa is stolen from America 😂
Janani Siva just because it’s from there doesn’t mean we don’t call him it
thank u
@@janani1826 just saying I know you posted this 5 months ago and all but you're talking shite haha, the fat red jolly coke Santa is American yes; but he did not originate in America haha.
"Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire."
This is were "Santa" originated from
Stephen111110 yh Ik br the popularisation of it in the uk is from America isn’t it? And I was talking abt the name not origination
Zoella and Keith from buzzfeed ( with a similar voice to Tyler Oakley)????
Rachel 1616 omg
Lehcar 138 Yep. That's who they are
Lehcar 138 OMG
Rachel lmao
Not to sound rude but in Britain we call them Advent Calendars not Chocolate Calendars and I don't recall any of these traditions she mentions. That wasn't meant to sound rude or anything but anyways I love your videos❤🌎😋
Ty I feel like most of the people that did one of these comments were really rude
Everyones experience is different here. Connies way is just one, pretty popular way of doing things. I've heard them called both Advent and Chocolate calendars, and I've done most of her traditions, albeit a bit differently
@@SpectralNightingale I remember before they had chocolate in them, there was usually just a picture behind the door like the wise men or a star, chocolate advent calendars started about 30 years ago
Maybe because she's not religious
Connie was 100% for our family
Everyone saying "Oh she says this but I do this and I'm English!" It's Christmas. It's a family holiday. Of course people have different traditions. They are basically comparing how each of their families celebrate Christmas.
+KeymashProductions Yes but she is saying it like everyone in Britain is the same
Luca K Well, that's the premise of the video. Generalisation based on the experiences of two people. With a video titled "British VS American", you're not going to talk about your experiences as if they are individual to you but I do see your point.
Plus Evan got a lot of things “wrong” for American Christmas too. It’s very different depending on your family and your ethnic background.
What the hell is a devil on a horseback ?! I'm from England 😂😂😂😂😂
Geek Girl date/prune wrapped in bacon aka beautiful wannabe pigs in blankets but still delicious
I read this as she said it😂😂😂
I would like but it's at 69 so sorry
Dates wrapped in bacon sound kinda like jalapeno poppers but sweet and SO GOOD. I have to make some.
Devils on horse back are dates stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon
I'm English and have never said happy Christmas I always say merry Christmas
Leah Over Here same
Queen Elizabeth, a woman of serious low-church piety, is said to prefer “happy” to “merry” because she dislikes “merry’s” connotation of boisterousness, even slight intoxication.
cause you are more into the american one cause you don't realize that just ask your grandmother what she used to say
Leah Over Here same
Ghkjdf Hbjhffh asked her she said Merry Christmas
I live in England and the people in my area always start Christmas stuff on the 1st of December not when the coke a cola advert comes out and no one calls it a chocolate calendar they call it a advent calendar
Not my family
When she says coke advert I think she means the commercial build up to Christmas rather than the December bit
I agree our family start on November 6th the day after bonfire night
In my family it's officially Christmas when we see the coca-cola advert with the lorry
@@jadethejemstone5948 mine too
Am I the only one who thinks Evan looks like Keith from buzzfeed ?
He so does
Has
Damn autocorrect *Yes*
Yassss
I don't see it . . .
It's cute how everyone celebrates Christmas differently
I thought my family was pretty standard but apparently not >u<
HAPPY CHRISTMAS :DDDD
Your Christmas is so similar to mine idk where all these people are coming from lol
OH MY GOD A CHRISTMAS WALK YEAAAAH !!!!
Mine is hella different but your Christmas seems very interesting and cool.
+Silent Enigma I agree
she truly has
Happy Christmas! (thats the first time i have ever said that and it felt awesome!)
The tangerine in the stocking is a historical thing as in war tangerines were thought to be a special thing as they were uncommon and expensive so people only got them at Christmas
@@maryjoan9927 It was through the 30s and 40s, with the Great Depression and then WW2, when many citrus fruits were rare due to them having to be imported, and so they were a special treat at Christmas.
To add on to that, if you'd been good you get a tangerine bit if you'd been bad, it's replaced this coal
@@maryjoan9927 Britain never was communist. It did have shortages of imported food during the 40's so oranges would have been very expensive.
@@JordanMilly I'm sure it goes back centuries before the 1930's. A warm climate fruit would be an expensively imported luxury item long before that.
My mum was English and we always had an orange in the toe of our Christmas stocking (one of dads rugby socks). She said it was due to war and winter and oranges being in short supply
(UK) My family did things a little differently to her:
1. I've always said merry christmas, never happy christmas.
2. Advent calendars, never heard it called a chocolate calendar.
3. We did have large decorated stockings, not just socks.
4. Intermittently called him both 'father christmas' and 'santa', although I don't think I knew 'santa' until I was about 10.
'christmas is not a religious thing here' well, you know, unless you're religious
It literally has Christ on the name
+Luis Roman Only because people changed it to that. It used to be Yule.
+angelstouch92 In Norway we call it Jul, but I've always learned that it translates to Christmas.
Siljeeke Huh... that's interesting.
+Thomas McDonald that is actually a misconception that many people have.
There's a massive rivalry between the 'happys' and 'merrys' when it comes to Christmas time in the UK
MERRY!!
Ben Jacobs I’m all about the merry
Merry
In Wales it’s basically only merry, Ive never heard anyone say happy Christmas over here
Merry yelpyelp
"No one does the boxing day sales" - So why do I have to get up at 5 am for everyone?
Same
Mini Meady I think she meant she works during the sales?
Nah mate it's when the John Lewis advert comes out
Tru and it just came out so its time to get festiiiveveee
Except this year cos it was not Christmassy and shit
No
Nah it's definitely the Coke advert. John Lewis one comes out way too early.
Definitely always john Lewis advert, its never coke advert. No one cares about the coke advert.
Best thing about British Christmases are the Doctor Who specials
YES!!!!!!
You are my new friend!!
Oml yes! I'm not even from England and the Christmas specials air here the day after christmas but I've watched them for like 3 years now :D
Except, when I usually watch them it's like 30 degrees celcius outside so I'm sweltering in the heat so the whole snow aesthetic of the show makes me jealous af
AND the strictly special
And the Gavin And Stacey special!
I'm British and half the things she says isn't true at least in the part of England I live in
I agree, what part you from?
North West
Lily I thought that too and I'm also from the north west
Lily Its cause she is really posh (or at least was when she was younger)
Lily i'm from the northwest and a most of these are true for me
british people say merry christmas too!!
Tasnim Hoque - yeah
Tasnim Hoque sometimes I guess, but every one I know says happy Christmas. I feel that's more proper.
You can say what you want it doesn't matter
She didn’t represent British Christmas well.
She had a richer childhood so it doesnt represent like 95% of britain
I can testify to this, our parent used to stick rocks in our stockings to make them look bigger.
@@aseth1112 I’m personally on the “richer” side of a childhood and she is very wrong
the reason mince pies have fruit in them is because during like the medieval times, meats and chickens and stuff were really expensive and this was mid winter so around that time, people were fast running out of their meat stocks which is why they used fruit preserves because they were much cheaper and lasted longer so they could freely use them in the winter - mince pies did originally have mince meat in them though, hence the name
Thats so cool
but they were made in Victorian times.
+that nerd in the corner no mince pies were a part of the traditional Christmas expirience from as early as the 16th century ✌
I didnt know that but I guessed that once upon a time it would have had meat in it
I'm in Britain and who the fuck says 'Happy Christmas'
I say happy Christmas and chocolate callender
So do all my friends actually
Aoife Campbell same
I know it's merry Christmas all the way
I know loads of people who do lol. Probs a regional thing
BRITISH PERSON SPEAKING HERE: I say merry Christmas not happy Christmas... I have a huge stocking instead of a small one... Like everything is in there... I say Santa not Father Christmas
see I'm from Wales and I and the complete opposite
I say Merry Christmas and father Christmas
Same. Also Boxing Day Ham is NOT a thing. Never heard of that. Boxing day is when you don't eat much or just have leftovers.
same
@@graces6611 same but I'm from Manchester and people down south say Santa
We get tangerines and in the bottom of our stocking every year on Christmas because in the "olden days" citruses were very expensive, especially that time of year since they only grow in warm climates and without planes and other fast modes of transport it was very hard to get citruses to places like Europe/America. When people got tangerines in their stockings on Christmas, it was a very special treat.
Yep
The tangerine has become a Terry's Chocolate Orange in our stockings. 😊
Spain, in Europe, produces vast amounts of oranges.
Ohh I never knew that, I used to get told I’d get one if I was good and if I wasn’t I’d get a lump of coal
My family does.
OMG She is so much like Zoella it's freaky
1) Her hair
2) Her slang
3) The way she talks
4) The way she does things like her mannerisms
5) Her Personality too!
+Riya Ajit It is zoella
Oh my goodness!
Evan, you actually replied!
I love you so much you inspire me a lot!
Your puns make me giggle hysterically. XD
And she's British
Genuinely about to say this
IrisKitten2020 *smirks* haha
She reminds me so much of Zoella omg
same haha
Thats what I was thinking! Like how she looks and even her mannerisms.
same!
+Mawi Yasu just less annoying
That was my first thought when I saw her! She looks like a blonde Zoella!
watches christmas videos in june
It's only the best time to watch it!
+Ariana Potter singing Christmas songs in PE and then hating them in Christmas
same
OMG same! I get so festive when it's Christmas you don't understand...
Saammmmee!
Right, I’m English and it’s defo Merry Christmas
Also, it’s advent calendars not chocolate calandars
In Britain on Boxing Day we have bubble 'n' squeak (at least my family do) which is basically all the leftovers mixed together and it tastes sooooo good 😂
Emily Stephenson yaaas its so nice
Emily Stephenson oh no bubble and squeak is eaten on Monday morning breakfast time as we have mashed up roast potato and cabbage and what not x
Emily Stephenson love bubble n squeak 😍😍😍
vicki hodgetts it's like the best bit of Christmas tbh
Emily Stephenson on Christmas one pair of my grandparents come to my families house and on Boxing Day I go to my other grandparents
The merry vs happy Christmas thing isn't really England vs USA because 'merry christmas' is also extremely common in the UK
Evan: who likes raisins?!
me: *raises hand*
Evan: No one!
me: *lowers hand* Alright what idiot had their hand up?
I actually like raisins...
INFIRESMAN raises had 🖐🏻
I like raisins🙌
i like raisins and so does daddy santa
@@poonywooon I was about to say that to maybe a year late
*John Lewis Advert Is Out Boys It Must Be Christmas 2019*
I say merry Christmas and I'm from England
Same!
Everyone does it's just her
Same I thought it was America who said happy Christmas
I think it depends where you're from. In my town we say happy Christmas
Yeah me too
I could count on one hand the number of times I've ever heard a British person say 'happy christmas'...we only really say merry christmas and happy new year.
In my area Happy Christmas is a lot more common. A lot of people in my family don't like the word Merry because it means slightly drunk and they don't want to wish a slightly drunk Christmas.
Exactly!
It's kind of interesting being canadian watching this because we have aspects of both British and American things mixed together because we are still technically controlled by the queen but we also have a government system more similar to America. I don't know I just think is the cool to relate to both sides.
YES!!
I have to be honest in British and I really don’t agree with a lot of stuff that she said. I have never called it a chocolate calendar. I have always called it an advent calendar and growing up mine didn’t have chocolate in them we got given them at Church. I had a stoking growing up with wrapped presents.
Yeah, same
as someone who lives in the UK and isn't religious i called them chocolate calendars, and personally I have never had a stocking and always thought it was an 'american' thing
Sam Sarsero that’s so strange! I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone in the UK call them that. But I guess it’s just the different backgrounds.
you had calanders given out at church still?
i sometimes had one as a child if me parrent bought one, made counting down to christmass more fun with a chocolate each day.
advent is the 4 advent weeks before chrismass .
romanvampire yeah I know I grew up in a Christian household so we had one that told the story of Jesus’ birth
I'm English and I say merry Christmas so does everyone I know
Oh Yh the Coca Cola advert
Renad same
I'm form the uk and I always have a proper stocking not a sock and some of the bigger presents are wrapped and other little ones are not.
band aid is bad?? its literally one of the best christmas songs and one of the most iconic music moments ever but ok...,,,
raindropsnroses I LLOOOVVEEE bandaid
I know it starts christmas it’s not Christmas Day in my house if that song isn’t on!
Love. it
Nails down a blackboard to me
Band Aid has many songs out right?
They show Harry Potter a lot on Christmas
yes?
Belgium, euhm, what do they show, The sound of music is always around that period, Home Alone,
Frozen became a fast tv christmass movie, some really old classics, and always some that haven't been shown that regularly for 2-3 years, (I think harry potter will come in that categorie, they showed all the films one film a week onces around chrismass period), that cat includes over the top USA films like Elfs, that just aren't of a level to show every year, but acceptable to show every few years.
but classic movies that a lot will once already have seen.
And James Bond
At Christmas, not on Christmas.
@@manchestertart5614 you wouldn't say at christmas day though would you
Happy Christmas is a thing that little kids say, Merry Christmas is what you say when you learn what merry means. Pretty much all she said is incorrect, definitely for me I mean. I'm from the North East of England!
Emma B I'm from the North East - Sunderland! Which city do you
live in?
@@charlielamb03 I live on the border city - Carlisle 😂
I've never heard anyone say "chocolate calendar" all of my family and my friends say "advent calendar"
And then I used to get a tangerine or whatever but I didn't like them so now we get chocolate oranges
can i just point out that not all British people are the same because where im from we say merry Christmas and santa
We get new pjs on Christmas Eve xx
That’s one of my favorite parts especially when your old enough to chose for your siblings
It’s my favourite tradition!!!
Father Christmas is what most people from Southern England say, but us lot from the north tend to say Santa :) xx
Southern England says Santa not Father Christmas
It's personal preference. I say Santa normally because it's shorter.
+Maddi H north england says father Christmas it really depends on the family
+Maddi H I'm from North-East England and I call him Santa, Father Christmas, Santa Claus, sInterklaas, St Nicholas, Weihnachtsmann, papa noel and joulupukki :D My family tend to use just Santa, Father Christmas, Santa Claus or St Nicholas, I only use the other ones when speaking with my friends in other countries ^~^
I'm from the south of England and I say Santa, it's just preference and what you grew up saying
the other thing on at Christmas is the doctor who Christmas special and my family always watched it even though none of us really watch doctor who it's just our Christmas tradition
also I love raisins Evan
I love doctor who and from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day I just rewatch all the Christmas Specials.
Nooderella looks Kirk a mix between Zoella and BananaJamana
+OrigamiLester yea she does
Haha yes
I actually didn't read her name and thought she was Zoella
+Leonidas_Cutrose same!
+Leonidas_Cutrose how the hell?
People used to give fruit, namely the orange, as a gift back in the olden days because it was a commodity when England didnt have orange trees. It was a sweet treat that ppl loved.
I'm British but it annoys me when people say Happy Christmas
Love your profile pic
+Thrilla in manilla lol chill 😂😂
+Thrilla in manilla By the way it's Jon Snow not John Snow
same
Same
home alone
wallace and gromit-the wererabbit
the speech
the doctor who special
stuff
we leave out a
carrot
mince pie
brandy
i dont even like coke and when the advert airs its properly christmas
we have icicles on the roof sometimes but its not that important
nobody likes xmas
theres all of them. you put all the songs on and listen to nothing else in december
pigs in blankets
christmas pudding (we dont set it alight or cover it in alcohol) my mum has it and the kids.
we have a toffee pudding with custard
advents . love them
its not xmas yet and now im feeling festive
oh and youre threatened with coal and bones for presents if youre naughty
The coke advert has started airing on tv
Rin Okumura
really?
ITS CHRISTMAS NOW
Katie MacKinnon hahaha, Yeah I saw it last night,
Katie MacKinnon polar express
Every Christmas Eve I would get new PJs
Me too lol and open a tube of sweets lol
Samantha Eddy yeah I get new pjs and bedsheets
Samantha Eddy oh my gosh same
One time my mum tried to get modern and she gave me an emoji onezie and I am 14
I would always get new pjs and a tube of sweets. Then christmas eve night we would change into our new pjs put a Christmas movie on and eat the sweets
It's like she doesn't actually live here ...
I never said or heard Happy Christmas in UK
My grandparents say it.
+DarkSlayer Yuki i only say merry christmas when im saying and a happy new year, because happy christmas and a happy new year doesn,t go, but otherwise to me it's happy christmas
Harry Potter said it in the first movie c:
+DarkSlayer Yuki I say it. But I also say Merry .
+DarkSlayer Yuki Weird, where I live in England most people say Happy Christmas
the cokecacola ad dont mean Christmas, evan y was right it is john lewis that gets us festive. also russel howard because he takes the piss out of it
Cokecacola 😂
RUSSELL HOWARD YAAAAAS
+WhoIsLiam I've never seen the coca cola advert
what the hecky- idk where in england she's from but in england we definitely say merry christmas aswell as happy Christmas :-)
WHAT THE HECK IS THE COCA COLA ADVERT ;;; omg
+Mary Davidson are you serious? THE COCA COLA ADVERT WITH THE TRUCKS
+Luca K iM SORRY I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS
I'm British I've never done the coca cola ad 😂 I usually do the John Lewis ad
I am also British. I don't look at either. lolol
It is merry Christmas and I'm British
I thought it was more from Americans because I was in Florida for Christmas this year and they said that (also happy holidays)
It's happy Christmas in the south of England
Charlotte Phillips I live in the south and say merry Christmas but okie
+the3pic1 really? I live in Chelsea (southern London) and if u say merry, u get this evil glare😂
Charlotte Phillips Well perhaps it's because of my parents. They're from Yorkshire and Lancashire, but they moved south a year before I was born. But most people I' know say Merry too.
I come from Britain and I say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and it drives me nuts when people say Happy Christmas 😂
Some of the stuff made me laugh because some of the Britain stuff is so different even when I live in Britain to. It just shows Britain has different things.
+Bridgette Dolman-Milner yeah same
ME TOO!
Me as well
I am Australian and this is some of my Christmas tradition/s
*We decorate/put up the tree on December 1st as it means good luck, not many people put up lights nowdays but usually around December 23rd my family/s would still drive around to go look at the lights.
*Older people teach the little ones "Father Christmas" then eventually people just call him Santa or Santa Claus
*Advent Calendars had chocolate
*We would have those big red stockings and it would be full of chocolate/sweet lollies and sometimes you would get something like a hat or some kind of smaller present in them
*Our entire family comes over and usually a few friends who don't have people to be around, come.
*We literally have every food at Christmas, Turkey, Ham, Beef, Pork, sometimes BBQ foods, salads (pasta, potato, normal lettuce salad stuff), Corn, peas, pinkeyes (which are amazing Tasmanian potatoes), Christmas pudding, my stepdad's cheesecake, icecream, truffle, pavlova, lamingtons, prawns, seafood and then things like dips and chocolate/chips get put out so when people arrive they can eat something. (Everything is homemade because most of my family are chefs/cooks)
*We have Christmas crackers and after lunch usually the adults would sit together and have some kind of alcohol while the kids play some kind of games. Then around 3/4pm we would all go home with food and sleep or whatever
Yes this is exactly what Christmas is like in Australia, well done
And also New Zealand
+NarwalsnPenguins im from Australia and ive never ever heard father christmas in my life.
“Literally everyone will agree with me that the Coca Cola advert is when people start to get festive”
Well your wrong.
Evan is literally an American version of dan
True
omg yes
+molly mcdermott He is a combination of: Keith from Buzzfeed, Dan, and Phil
+Trinity Antoszewski that is crazy accurate
Catharina Kremer thank you! I try
I'm American and I know the Band-Aid song "Feed the World"
gemdogmillionare it’s called do they know it’s christmas 😂😂😂
tangerines or satsuma oranges and nuts were considered luxury items for people who were less well off so they would be given once a year at Christmas as a special treat for children in the days of yore and I think that it's a lovely tradition even though they're not a luxury anymore
I’ve been British since the day I was conceived and I relate more to his “American” Christmas than her weird Christmas. Christmas starts when Halloween ends. I’ve never heard of anyone having Boxing Day ham, or going anywhere but the well heated living room after dinner to eat celebrations and watch all the Christmas episodes of soaps. It’s a fecking advent calendar. Also Christmas is most definitely religious here...
Well it is for religious people sure but my family have been atheists for 3 generations and we still celebrate Christmas as does every British atheist I know and even some people from other religions I've had Hindu friends who celebrate Christmas. I think it's a cultural holiday as well as a religious one.
Becky Salmon I don’t think it is as religious as America because everyone I know celebrates Christmas and only like 10% are actually religious
Violet None Of Your Business my Grandma believed in God. I don’t
Boxing Day ham is quite popular and yeah allot of pubs are shut. I think a walk is more of a Boxing Day thing than Xmas. And most ppl go to the pub on Xmas Eve.
OMG SHES LIKE A BLONDE ZOELLA! You two are adorable aw
+JamesWronaVlogs i ship them kinda
+Samantha Ryan lmao it's his girlfriend
+Jade Smith no she's not... He doesn't have a gf, he was dating a girl for a bit but she was from America and just recently she moved back there
Oh at first I thought that was zoella and the I read your comment and I was confused and then the guy said Connie and I was like oh
Australia is so different... the main thing that it's usually 35 degrees Celsius on Christmas Day
And most likely raining
+TheSabotSailor! No :/ it doesn't often rain here at Christmas
+Bridget H it is usually poring in North Queensland
ik it's awful.
It's only gonna be 28 degrees in Brisbane tomorrow (Christmas)
Citrus fruits are harvested in autumn and winter. They used to be expensive, and that's why they would be eaten in winter time and at christmas.
Eleonore Bon THANK GOD somebody knows
The song that goes ‘Feed the world, let them know it’s Christmas time’ is one of those songs that comes on the radio at Christmas time and my family open all the windows and the sunroof in the car, turn it up suuuper loud and sing even louder!!!
I'm in the UK and it's merry Christmas, WTF
I say both, I guess it's just people's opinions on how to say it.
It depends, both work. I know people who don't like to say Merry Christmas because 'Merry' means drunk.
+Rowan Duck (JustDuck) I say happy holidays because not everyone is Christian or celebrates Christmas!
Diwali, Hanukkah, The Solstice and Christmas (and I'm sure others I don't know about!) are all around the same time of year, so I call it the holiday season because there's more than one holiday then!
same! Hate when people say happy Christmas
+Sebastian Nicholson I know
lol I'm British and my Christmas is so different to Connie' aha
The orange is a christingle (I think that's how you spell it) it's a religious thing and you put candles and sweets on it
Holly Stephens no. That's something different. The orange is an old fashioned thing where that's what Santa would bring (like the equivalent of a iPhone on today's society as they were very expensive cos the were foreign) xx
Evan thinks that the Angel is religious but a star is just as equally religious! You put the start on your tree to symbolise the star above the stable. (tho as Connie said, nobody really does it for religion anymore)
I adore Christmas Pudding. Also I reckon the Christmas traditions are different for everyone. Oh, and ADVENT calendars.
I'm English and I say merry Christmas
+Megan collins I'm also agreeing most with the American's, she's talking jibberish!! i've never heard of that butter stuff, we wrap the presents in our stockings, we buy stockings etc...
+Megan collins The brandy butter is a thing :P
She is talking gibberish like she clearly had weird Christmases...
I say merry Christmas and I am from nz where it is summer at Christmas
same
I'm a Brit and I use Merry Xmas.
Pixiedust8399 I use both
Pixiedust8399 same
I say merry Christmas and happy Christmas :)
Pixiedust8399 i say merry Christmas
Queen Elizabeth, a woman of serious low-church piety, is said to prefer “happy” to “merry” because she dislikes “merry’s” connotation of boisterousness, even slight intoxication.
You don't know a pantomime! We used to have so much pantomimes in my primary school!
Really? The idea of a child playing a pantomime dame (both essentially a drag queen and usually doing low level adult jokes that would go over the kids heads) is quite disturbing.
thedarkness111 no like people would come to our schools and do them, we wouldn’t be in them😂
I live in Britain and WHO THE HECK SAYS HAPPY CHRISTMAS 😂
I think it was the older convention. In the original Night Before Christmas poem it ends with Happy Christmas to all (and to all a good night). Modern ones probably say Merry. And many have dropped the Santa pipe smoking lines!
I was in a Christmas pantomime once. I was 11 and sneezy the dwarf in snow white. it was me and 6 other girls my age as the dwarves and we all had fake beards and they were SO ITCHY. best and most uncomfortable week of my life 😂
Polar Express anyone???
Yesssssss
No thats a rubbish movie!
Yaaas
Omg yasss
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSW
"literally everyone will agree with me"
nope that's not a thing I am aware of in the uk we et festive whenever we feel like it
+Zoe Sherlock what 'devils on horsebacks?' our christmas experience are very different!
I really wanna punch you.
Katie Johnston rude.
Zoe Sherlock you? Yeah. Obviously.
+Katie Johnston obviously to what I didn't ask a question...
I’ve always called him Father Christmas, also most families have their own recipes for Christmas pudding. My grannies recipe is amazing XD XD
She got so many things wrong.
haha yup.
+Tim Moore yeah, when she said "no one likes Christmas pudding" i was nearly screaming at her
+MrErmmmmmm Christmas pudding is disgusting!!
+Tim Moore She didn't get things wrong!! haha how can you get things like this wrong?? I agreed with nearly everything she says but everyone has different traditions
Penny Mills she talks about "British traditions" when she is clearly a middle class southerner, she doesn't know what Britain is as she has led a feather bedded middle class life, in the most expensive place in England
What, who calls them chocolate calendars? I live in Britain and nobody says that.
I love your pic
advent calendars?
+Mitchell Gould yeah advent calendars
It's advent calendar. Never heard of anyone saying Chocolate calendar. I swear she isn't British!
Noodarella looks like zoella xx
I was thinking exactly the same!!!😹
I thought I was the only one who noticed. And they sound somewhat alike...
AnnaThe BigWatermelon Why did you think you were the only one who thought that? Are you special?
+Twenty One Chauffeurs no need to be rude
spoopy bagel Nobody's being a body part...
Anyone else , who's british , remember driving round town JUST to look at all the lights and the trees and decorations for like an hour like its soooo fun
I got the sock joke, Evan. I got the sock joke.
I am British and I say Merry Christmas
Haven't even watched it and I know it's uk hands down
+Eve Bennett WE GOT BETTER LIGHTS
True UK is definitely better
+Evan Edinger u wanna go m8
+Eve Bennett yas
yup, us lot win
Advent calendars I have had have had chocolate in some years but also I have had ones with Christmas story/pictures in, bracelet charms, toiletries, marshmallows in. Nowadays there are so many. You can get ones with your in, candy in, makeup in, alcohol in.
An advent calendar here in uk is technically a small gift every day as a countdown to Christmas Day.
i love raisins tbh
+AnimeAndRock Fuck raisins
+Jazz Taylor Yeah!
Me too.
Me too aha
Me too lol
Yeah in Scotland we put out whisky for Santa along with mince pies.
And carrots for the reindeer
Good old Scottish Whiskey, best in the world
I always say merry christmas (im from the UK)😂❤️😋
"FEED THE WORLD!" I had do a presentation on Band Aid. That song is stuck in my head.
I've never had or don't know anyone that has Devils on horse back, and I'm British.
Also I love Christmas pudding. So NOT everyone hates it
+Stephen Hitchens never heard of it
+Stephen Hitchens We have them but ours are basically pigs in blankets but with chillis under the blanket too
Just to clarify not everything she said was 100% accurate. We say both merry Christmas and happy Christmas. I don't know anyone who gets ready for Christmas when they see Coca Cola advert. I always start Christmas on December the 1st or most people go by the John Lewis advert. Lots of people spend Boxing Day differently, I personally go to my grandparents house but we do have ham or gammon like she said. I've never heard of those prunes wrapped in bacon. The prize in the Christmas pudding is kind of a thing but it's more of a Spanish tradition. I don't call them chocolate calendars, everyone calls them advent calendar. Most people actually buy stockings instead of using socks. We call him Santa or Father Christmas, just not daddy Christmas. Merry Christmas!
You know it was Christmas time as a kid when Disney Channel would have the actors/actresses who are announcing the next show would have Christmas hats on with animated falling snow in the Background.
You're parents should have been done for child abuse. 😂
My family recently started this tradition where give each other a book on Christmas Eve and read them before we go to bed.